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Nope. This was mostly a psychological fad in the 1980s that led to many ruined lives from false accusations. Even the Wikipedia page starts off by saying the phenomenon has been largely discredited. Many people still believe in it but the vast majority of cases of "repressed memory" cannot be independently proven outside of the patient and therapist and in many cases are actually contradicted by externally verifiable facts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressed_memory
aka all the 1980s/1990s lit on alien abduction was based on this crap and using 'hypnosis' to 'reveal' it.
it makes for good story telling, which is why it became a staple of TV dramatizations.